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August 6: A French fleet and expeditionary force sails for Ireland to aid the Irish rebels, though the rebellion is already defeated. August 22: French troops under General Humbert land at Killala, in northwest Ireland. August 27: General Humbert defeats a British force at the Battle of Castlebar, and declares an Irish republic.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. ... Timeline of French history; 0–9. 1606 in France; 1681 in ...
The Convention voted for the abolition of slavery in the colonies on 4 February 1794 and decreed that all residents of the colonies had the full rights of French citizens irrespective of colour. [201] An army of 1,000 sans-culottes led by Victor Hugues was sent to Guadeloupe to expel the British and enforce the decree. The army recruited former ...
Second Opium War: British and French troops entered the Forbidden City in Beijing. 1866: 31 May: French intervention in Mexico: French troops start withdrawing from the country. 1870–1940: Third Republic: 1871: 10 May: The end of the Franco-Prussian War: France's loss marked the downfall of Napoleon III and led to the end of the Second French ...
Founded in 1960, this movement stressed the importance of the real and the modern consumer object and was similar to the Pop art movement in New York. Raymond Hains; Arman; Yves Klein; Jacques de la Villeglé; Martial Raysse; Daniel Spoerri; François Dufrêne; Pierre Restany; Jean Tinguely; César; Mimmo Rotella; Niki de Saint Phalle; Gérard ...
French, 73rd Moroccan Goumiers of the 6th Tabor: Liberation of Corsica [2] 1944-06-06: D-Day landings (Allied invasion of Europe as part of Operation Overlord) 1944-06-06: Normandy coast: 14: Normandy: 21st Army Group: Normandy Landings (start of Operation Overlord) 1944-06-06: Ranville: 14: Normandy 6th Airlanding Brigade: Capture of the Caen ...
The French Revolution: A History, annotated HTML text, based on the Project Gutenberg version. The French Revolution: A History available at Internet Archive, scanned books, original editions, some illustrated. The French Revolution: A History, with illustrations by E. J. Sullivan. The French Revolution: A History, 1934 edition.
Paix et Liberté published, distributed and posted hundreds of thousands of posters in France in the 1950s. These posters were reproduced in the form of vignettes, attacking the Soviet Union and communist ideology, but also the French Communist Party and its leaders, such as Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos, accusing them of being agents of the USSR.